The document provides an overview of the key features of a classroom learning management system, including: - A clean, intuitive interface for teachers to post announcements, attachments, videos, and links for students. - The ability for teachers to easily add students and set email notification levels. - Features for creating assignments, setting due dates, and seeing at a glance how many students have submitted work. - Overall the system seems very streamlined and easy for teachers to use, though the author notes they have not explored reporting features in depth yet.

1. Taking a Peek
Classroom
Learning Management System
by
Meg Tufano, M.A.

2. Clean Interface!

3. Guided Tour

4. Easy to Add Students

5. Teacher Announcements Clean/Clear

6. Teacher can post attachments, Drive assets,
YouTube, or links. VERY nice!

7. Drag and Drop from Drive

8. N. This is the Drive WITHIN the EDU.

9. Embedding a YouTube in Announcements

10. Can Post a Pic AND a (different) Link Easily

11. Still creating an Announcement with a Pic.
One may add comments. ••• And share inside the EDU.
But this seemingly
benign-looking
link leads to . . . (see
next slide) . . .

12. We’re in the Chrome Store
with every distraction
possible. Not sure whether
this is available to students
or not.
If I had a say, I’d say
“NOT!” Too distracting.

13. Back to the Tour (Still in Announcements)

14. Can create URL links to comments.

15. One can set Email Notification Levels

16. One may comment to a point INSIDE of a picture. Very cool.
(When pic is muted, you know you are in Comments.)

17. What you see when you click on “Help.”
(We are still inside of “Announcements.”)

18. It APPEARS that one could share an
Announcement with the world (public URL).

19. It APPEARS one must “update” through “refresh.” Not sure
students would know to do that.

20. Creating an Assignment

21. Google gives a good tour for creating
Assignments

22. Easy access to assignment resources.

23. Due Dates (Hope they integrate calendars.)
And do not require date-by-date entry of Assignments. <sigh>

24. Nice feature. See at a glance how many have
handed in the Assignment.

25. All in all, looks very streamlined, very easy to use. Hope they
will incorporate Calendars. Have not checked out what
reports are available as yet. Intuitive design. Assume Google
Groups will be part of the software.

26. More when I know more! So far, so good!
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